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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

Berthold Auerbach

When the foot of the’ mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
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Disaster Feet Mountain
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Artist Littles New Work
People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.
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Eye Long Maturity
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Fall Grief Rain Silent
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Age Men Retains Silver
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World

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